I feel like a pompous asshole referencing media appearances to say “I told you so” but whatevs.

I told Al Jazeera a month ago I hoped Trump’s position on MbS & Khashoggi night force a domestic political split that *may* FINALLY allow (even a slight) re-evaluation of Saudi ties.

It’s HILARIOUS to hear some talking head on the news being an apologist for MbS & the Saudis, while bringing up “butwhatabout Iran” ... except the Iran-hater uses “Persian Gulf” instead of “Arabian Gulf.”

Newt Gingrich was cheating on his wife when he fought to impeach President Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife so he’s a perfect chief of staff to fight against impeachment of the current president who cheated on his wife —

I took a chance on one of my classes this semester (freshmen), as they exhibited so much maturity — I let them vote on the novel we would read. They picked pick Anouar Bennalek’s Abduction, which is...intense.

We all hate grading, but sometimes you get a pile of papers that make everything worth it. Their responses this time really blew me away.

I’ll never stop believing that students will rise to the challenge if you simultaneously push AND encourage them.

What a gift.

The job market may be hell on earth, but I’m so grateful to be reading these student essays at this particular moment.

At the start of this story I wrote that I was SURE #Khashoggi had been told “by someone he trusted״ that it was safe to go to the Istanbul consulate. That he was observant & no fool.

Khalid told Khashoggi, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post, that he should go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve the documents and gave him assurances that it would be safe to do so."

this is Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the US - who then said "the reports that suggest that Jamal Khashoggi went missing in the Consulate in Istanbul or that the Kingdom’s authorities have detained him or killed him are absolutely false"

#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!

The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.

#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.

Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…

"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.

The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"

"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…

National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR

Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in fullbit.ly/2CpL7z2